Association for Symbolic Logic at the Pacific APA

The ASL Spring Meeting will take place on Wednesday and Thursday at the Pacific APA in Seattle! Note that the ASL Reception will take place on Thursday, April 13, 5:00–7:00 p.m. There will be snacks and wine!

Here’s the program:

WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 9:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M.

Invited Speaker Session: MODALITY AND MODAL LOGIC
Chair: Audrey Yap

Peter Fritz (Universitetet i Oslo), A philosophical perspective on algebraic models for modal logics.

Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University), Social epistemic logic.

Tamar Lando (Columbia University), Topology and measure in logics for point-free spaces.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 12, 1:00–4:00 P.M.

Invited Speaker Session: INTUITONISTIC MATHEMATICS AND LOGIC
Chair: Valeria de Paiva

Mark van Atten (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université Paris 4), Intuitionism and impredicativity.

Rosalie Iemhoff (Universiteit Utrecht), Quantifiers and functions in intuitionistic logic.

Joan Rand Moschovakis (Occidental College), Realizable extensions of Brouwer’s analysis.

THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 9:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M.

CONTRIBUTED TALKS
Chair: Richard Zach

Joachim Mueller-Theys, Defining and simplifying the second incompleteness theorem.

Valeria de Paiva and Harley Eades III, Dialectica categories for the Lambek calculus.

Ronald Fuller, First-order logic in 13th-century accounting systems.

Rachel Boddy (University of California, Davis), Fruitful definitions.

Michael McGrady, Garbage collection (GC), Gödel numbering, and periodicity in mathematical logic.

Fabio Lampert (University of California, Davis), On the expressive power of propositional two-dimensional modal logic.

Alexei Angelides (University of San Francisco), Weak arithmetics and the bar rule.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 13, 1:00 P.M.–4:00 P.M.

Special Session organized by the Committee on Logic Education: INCLUSIVENESS IN LOGIC EDUCATION
Chair: Alexei Angelides

Audrey Yap (University of Victoria), Symbolic logic, accessibility, and accommodation.

Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University), Experiences and difficulties in teaching logic at Tsinghua University.

Nicole Wyatt (University of Calgary), The Open Logic Textbook.

Maureen Eckert (University of Massachussetts, Dartmouth), The Summer Program for Diversity in Logic: Some reflections.

Panel discusssion.

THURSDAY EARLY EVENING, APRIL 13, 5:00 P.M.–7:00 P.M.
ASL Reception

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